12 THINGS WE LEARNED DURING COWBOYS' ROOKIE MINI-CAMP: When the Cowboys unveiled their new crop of rookies with a three-day mini-camp last weekend, and there were plenty of interested eyes watching over Valley Ranch. As the full team prepares to arrive for OTAs on Tuesday, here are 10 story lines that came out of mini-camp you should know.

DallasCowboys.com writer Mickey Spagnola recently joined New School on 105.3 FM The Fan. Here are some highlights:

On Monte Kiffin and Rod Marinelli:

“I’m pretty sure it was Friday, and it was the first drill they were running and it was a deal with the defensive players where, I don’t know what they were doing, they did some little maneuver and then they had to run full speed to the end zone. He was at the goal line and he was yelling and screaming about running faster, and it was like, ‘If we don’t run faster, we’re going to do this over and over and over again.’ I’m like, woah, you’re getting everybody’s attention right from the start. They’re just old football guys. They looked they were having fun being out there together. The energy from both of them is rather remarkable and I think it rubs off on the players. The guys just love it.”

On Rich Bisaccia:

“Some different drills than they’ve been doing … They were throwing tennis balls for a couple drills they were doing and the other drill that was a little different was when they were working on guys catching punts. I guess it was to emphasize on watching the ball and getting underneath it to the point where he didn’t want them to catch it, he wanted to make sure the ball landed on top of their helmet. It was almost like soccer.”

On if there were changes to the offense:

“It looked like the same they were running before. It didn’t look a whole lot different to me. Again it’s a lot of different guys running stuff and mostly basic stuff, basic running plays, basic pass plays, so it didn’t look as though they reinvented the wheel. I know at one point on Friday Callahan looked like he was sending the plays into the quarterbacks, and then on other drills Garrett looked like he was right there with the quarterbacks, talking to them. It looked like he was sending plays in while Callahan was doing some other stuff, so, they’re still kind of messing with it. I just don’t think they want to tell anybody.”

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